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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT dexxtra.com>]

Maybe they will be worth something someday - pets.com puppets are going on 
eBay for about $10!

5/6/2002 11:13:59 AM, AlMaur777 AT aol.com wrote:
>  From:   AlMaur777 AT aol.com
>
>  Date:   Mon, 6 May 2002 11:13:59 EDT
>  Subject:[internetworkers] dotcom bummer
>  To:     "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
>
>  In a message dated 5/3/2002 11:59:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>  internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu writes:
>
>  the Dot-com Bummer," and to bring a coffee mug from a failed Internet
>  venture,
>  for filling with a hearty helping of hobo stew
>
>  Maybe we could throw our own version of this:
>
>
>
>  I still have a huge collection of green dbusiness.com stress balls. We 
> could
>
>  give away leftover dot com giveaways at the door. The box with hundreds of
>  the stress balls arrived a week or so before the company changed its name 
> to
>  localbusiness.com.
>  A sterling example of the marketing genius that led to the company's
>
>  resounding collapse in April 2001.
>
>
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